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BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers
Synonyms:
battle of the Coral Sea; Coral Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets)
Domain region:
Coral Sea (an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia)
Holonyms ("battle of the Coral Sea" is a part of...):
Second World War; World War 2; World War II (a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945)
